RIKEN Institute in Japan invites application for vacant (108) Postdoc, Research and Academic Positions

Last Updated on May 31, 2025 by Scholar Idea

RIKEN Institute in Japan invites application for vacant Postdoc, Research and Academic Positions, a large scientific research institute, the main site at Wakō, Saitama Prefecture, just outside Tokyo, Japan.

Principal investigator	Position	Deadline	Locations
	FY 2025 Call for RIKEN ECL Team / Unit Leaders	August 14, 2025	Wako Tsukuba Tokyo Yokohama Keihanna Kobe Other
	Seeking a Team Director (Principal Investigator, Indefinite-term) (W25038)NEW	Aug 29, 2025	Wako
	[Female only] Seeking a few Senior Research Scientists, Research Scientists, Postdoctoral Researchers, or Research Associates (25-508) NEW	Open until filled	Wako Tokyo Yokohama Kobe
Division Director: Satoshi Iso	Seeking a Postdoctoral Researcher (25-509) NEW	Jul. 4, 2025	Wako Other
Laboratory head: Hitomi Yanaka	Seeking a Research Scientist or a Postdoctoral Researcher (25-530)NEW	Open until filled	Tokyo
Team Director: Tetsuo Hatsudakakko (Dr. Yohsuke Murase is scheduled to be appointed as Team Director on September 1, 2025)	Seeking a few Research Scientists or Postdoctoral Researchers (W25015)	Open until filled	Wako
Office Director: Masaaki Kimura	Seeking a Postdoctoral Researcher or Research Scientist (W25030)	Open until filled	Wako
	Seeking a Postdoctoral Researcher or Research & Development Scientist (T25001)	Jul. 1, 2025	Tsukuba
RIKEN ECL Team Leader: Shihori Yokobayashi	Seeking a Part timer I (Y25008)	Open until filled	Yokohama
Laboratory head: Daisuke Hashizume	Seeking a Postdoctoral Researcher (W25031)	Open until filled	Wako

Principal investigator	Position	Deadline	Locations
Team Director : Jun Seita	Seeking a few Senior Research Scientists, Research Scientists, Postdoctoral Researchers, or Research Associates (W25024)	Open until filled	Tokyo
Laboratory head: Sa Kan Yoo	Seeking Research Scientist or Postdoctoral Researcher and Technical Staff (K25010)	Open until filled	Kobe
Team Director: Thomas John Mchugh	Seeking a Research Associate (W25026)	Open until filled	Wako
Chief Scientist: Takehiko Saito	Seeking a Postdoctoral Researcher (W25029)	Open until filled	Wako
	Seeking a Team Director (W25020)	Jul. 11, 2025	Wako
Team Director: Thomas John Mchugh	Seeking a Research Part-time Worker I or II (W25016)	Open until filled	Wako
Division Director: Yasushi Okuno	Seeking Deputy Division Director (K24113)	Open until filled	Yokohama Kobe
Team Director: Thomas John Mchugh	Seeking a Research Part-time Worker Ⅱ (W25003)	Open until filled	Wako
Team Director: Thomas John Mchugh	Seeking an Administrative Part-time Worker Ⅱ (W25004)	Open until filled	Wako
Team Leader: Yasunari Suzuki	Seeking a few Senior Scientists, Research Scientists, Postdoctoral Researchers or Research Associates (W25345)	Open until filled	Wako

Principal investigator	Position	Deadline	Locations
Unit Leader: Miwako Tsuji	Seeking a few Senior Scientists or Research Scientists or Postdoctoral Researchers (K24014)	Open until filled	Wako Kobe
Unit Leader: Nobuyasu Ito	Seeking a few Senior Scientists or Research Scientists or Postdoctoral Researchers (K24007)	Open until filled	Wako Kobe
Team Director: Seigo Tarucha	Seeking a Postdoctoral Researcher (W24031)	Open until filled	Wako
Unit Leader: Shinichi Miura	Seeking a few Senior Technical Scientists or Technical Scientists (K24012)	Open until filled	Wako Kobe
Unit Leader: Nobuyasu Ito	Seeking a Technical Scientist (K24006)	Open until filled	Wako Kobe
Director: Hiroyoshi Sakurai	Seeking a few Postdoctoral Researchers, Contract Researchers, Technical Staffs I or II (W24009)	Open until filled	Wako
Team Director: Hayato Goto	Seeking a few Senior Scientists, Research Scientists or Postdoctoral Researchers (W24026)	Open until filled	Wako
Team Leader: Florence Tama	Seeking a few Research Scientists or Postdoctoral Researchers (K24003)	Open until filled	Kobe
Laboratory head: Yumi Konagaya	Seeking a few Postdoctoral Researcher or Research Associate (BDR-23-038)	Open until filled	Kobe
Team Principal: Seiji Yunoki	Seeking a few Senior Scientists, Research Scientists or Postdoctoral Researchers (R-CCS2333)	Open until filled	Wako Kobe

Principal investigator	Position	Deadline	Locations
Group Director: Takahiro Inagaki	Seeking a few Research Scientists or Postdoctoral Researchers (C23-0801)	Open until filled	Harima
Team Director: Tomoichiro Miyoshi	Seeking Research Scientists or Postdoctoral Researcheres (IMS209-2302)	Open until filled	Yokohama
Team Director: Seiji Yunoki	Seeking a Research Scientist or a Postdoctoral Researcher (W23212)	Open until filled	Wako
Laboratory head: Michihisa Yamamoto	Seeking Research Scientists or Postdoctoral Researchers (W23172)	Open until filled	Wako
Team Leader: Masaaki Kondo	Seeking Research Scientist or Postdoctoral Researcher (R-CCS2323)	Open until filled	Kobe
Unit Leader: Shinichi Miura	Seeking a few Senior Technical Scientists or Technical Scientists (R-CCS2319)	Open until filled	Wako Kobe
Laboratory head: Seiji Yunoki	Seeking Research Scientists or Postdoctoral Researchers (R-CCS2314)	Open until filled	Kobe
Team Leader: Yasumichi Aoki	Seeking a Postdoctoral Researcher (R-CCS2315)	Open until filled	Kobe
Team Leader: Kenji Tamasaku	Seeking a few Research Scientists or Postdoctoral Researchers (C22-0103)	Open until filled	Harima
Team Leader: Makina Yabashi	Seeking a few Research Scientists or Postdoctoral Researchers (C22-0102)	Open until filled	Harima

Principal investigator	Position	Deadline	Locations
Team Leader: Makina Yabashi	Seeking a few Research Scientists or Postdoctoral Researchers (C22-1201)	Open until filled	Harima
Group Director: Koji Yonekura	Seeking a few Research Scientists or Postdoctoral Researchers (C21-0301)	Open until filled	Harima
Laboratory head: ULMER Stefan	Seeking a Technical Staff I or II (W21031)	Open until filled	Wako
Group Director: Yasuo Seto	Seeking a few Research Scientist or Postdoctoral Researcher position (C21-0205)	Open until filled	Harima
Team Leader: Tetsuya Ishikawa	Seeking Technical Staff I positions (C21-0201)	Open until filled	Harima
Team Leader: Yoshiki Kohmura	Seeking a Research Scientist position (C21-0204)	Open until filled	Harima
Group Director: Alfred Baron	Seeking a Research Scientist or Postdoctoral Researcher position (C21-0203)	Open until filled	Harima
Team Leader: Takaki Hatsui	Seeking a Research Scientist or Postdoctoral Researcher position (C21-0202)	Open until filled	Harima

Principal investigator	Position	Deadline	Locations
Unit Leader: Henrik Skibbe	Research Scientist or Postdoctoral Researcher Position (W24352)	Open until filled	Wako
Team Director: Hidehiro Yonezawa	Seeking a few Senior Research Scientists, Research Scientists, Postdoctoral Researchers or Research Associates (W24344)	Open until filled	Wako
Team Principal: Rio Yokota	Seeking Senior Scientist, Seeking Research Scientist or Postdoctoral Researcher (K24106)	Open until filled	Tokyo
Team Director: Aya Takeoka	Seeking Research Scientist or Postdoctoral Researcher (W24340)	Open until filled	Wako
Team Director: Tetsuo Hatsuda	Seeking Postdoctoral Researcher, Research Scientist or Senior Research Scientist (W24328)	Open until filled	Wako Tokyo Kobe
Team Director: Takayuki Osa	Seeking Research Scientists or Postdoctoral Researchers (W24316)	Open until filled	Tokyo
RIKEN ECL Team Leader: Makoto Saito	Seeking a few Research Scientists or Postdoctoral Researchers (W24327)	Open until filled	Wako
Team Director: Eiji Saitoh	Seeking Postdoctoral Researchers (W24326)	Jun. 30, 2025	Wako
Laboratory head: Masaya Hagiwara	Seeking a Research Scientist or Postdoctoral Researcher (K24101)	Open until filled	Kobe
Team Director: Ryosuke Kojima	Seeking a Postdoctoral Researcher (K24105)	Open until filled	Kobe

Principal investigator	Position	Deadline	Locations
Team Director: Lukas Schmitt	Seeking Technical Staff (W24313)	Open until filled	Wako
Team Director: Ryosuke Kojima	Seeking a Technical Staff II (K24097)	Open until filled	Kobe
Team Director: Keiji Numata	Seeking a Research Scientist or Postdoctoral Researcher (W24272)	Open until filled	Wako Other
Laboratory head: Seigo Tarucha	Seeking Postdoctoral Researchers (W24265)	Open until filled	Wako
Unit Leader: Katsushi Kobayashi	Seeking a few Senior Scientists, Research Scientists, Postdoctoral Researchers, Research Associates, Senior Technical Scientists, Technical Scientists, or Technical Staffs I (W24225)	Open until filled	Wako
Team Director: Joshua Johansen	Part-time Staff Position (W24267)	Open until filled	Wako
Team Leader: Takunori Taira	Seeking a Research Scientist and Research Associate (C22-0101)	Open until filled	Harima
Team Director: Thomas John Mchugh	Seeking a few Part-time Staff Position (W24252)	Open until filled	Wako
Team Director: Atsushi Noguchi	Seeking a Postdoctoral Researcher (W24240)	Open until filled	Wako
Team Director: Atsushi Noguchi	Seeking a Postdoctoral Researcher (W24239)	Open until filled	Wako

Principal investigator	Position	Deadline	Locations
Team Principal: Seiji Yunoki	Seeking a few Research Scientists or Postdoctoral Researchers (K24077)	Open until filled	Kobe
Team Director: Ryosuke Kojima	Seeking Research Scientist or Postdoctoral Researcher (K24068)	Open until filled	Kobe
Team Director: Yasunobu Nakamura	Seeking a few Research Scientists or Postdoctoral Researchers (W24219)	Open until filled	Wako
Team Principal: Kento Sato	Seeking a Senior Scientist, Research Scientist or Postdoctoral Researcher (K24074)	Open until filled	Kobe
Team Director: Takeshi Fukuhara	Seeking a few Research Scientists or Postdoctoral Researchers (W24217)	Open until filled	Wako
Team Director: Takeshi Fukuhara	Seeking a few Research Scientists or Postdoctoral Researchers (W24216)	Open until filled	Wako
Team Principal: Kentaro Sano	Seeking a few Research Scientists or Postdoctoral Researchers (K24072)	Open until filled	Kobe
Team Leader: Li-Kun Phng	Seeking a Postdoctoral Researcher or Research Associate (K24066)	Open until filled	Kobe
Team Principal: Kentaro Sano	Seeking a few Research Scientists or Postdoctoral Researchers (K24071)	Open until filled	Kobe
Unit Leader: Kentaro Sano	Seeking a few Research Scientists or Postdoctoral Researchers (K24073)	Open until filled	Kobe

Principal investigator	Position	Deadline	Locations
Team Director: Kyoko Ishizaka	Seeking a Postdoctoral Researcher or a Research Scientist (W24222)	Open until filled	Wako
Team Principal: Jens Domke	Seeking a Research Scientists or Postdoctoral Researchers (K24069)	Open until filled	Kobe
Team Principal: Mohamed Wahib	Seeking a few Research Scientists or Postdoctoral Researchers (K24067)	Open until filled	Tokyo Kobe
	Seeking a Director of the AI for Science Platform Division (K24061)	Open until filled	Tokyo Kobe
Team Principal: Takahito Nakajima	Seeking a few Research Scientists or Postdoctoral Researchers (K24044)	Open until filled	Kobe
Unit Leader: Takahito Nakajima	Seeking Research Scientist or Postdoctoral Researcher (K24045)	Open until filled	Kobe
Team Director: Tomoya Kitajima	Seeking a Research Scientist or Postdoctoral Researcher (K24055)	Open until filled	Kobe
Laboratory head: Masaya Hagiwara	Seeking a Research Scientist or Postdoctoral Researcher (K24037)	Open until filled	Kobe
Director: Nobuhisa Fukunishi	Seeking a Postdoctoral Researcher (W24187)	Open until filled	Wako
Team Leader: Yu-Chiun Wang	Seeking Research Scientists, Postdoctoral Researchers or Research Associates (K24056)	Open until filled	Kobe

Principal investigator	Position	Deadline	Locations
Team Director: Yumi Konagaya	Seeking a few Research Part-time Worker (K24054)	Open until filled	Kobe
Team Leader: Franco Nori	Seeking Postdoctoral Researchers and Research Scientists (W24177)	Open until filled	Wako
Team Leader: Franco Nori	Seeking a few Technical Staff I or Technical Staff II (W24176)	Open until filled	Wako
Team Director: Kazuhisa Shibata	Seeking a Postdoctoral Researcher or Research Scientist Position (W24180)	Open until filled	Wako
Laboratory head: Mohammad Emtiyaz Khan	Seeking a Research Scientist or a Postdoctoral Researcher (W24162)	Open until filled	Tokyo
Laboratory head: Mohamed Wahib	Seeking a few Senior Scientists, Research Scientists or Postdoctoral Researchers (K24040)	Open until filled	Tokyo
Laboratory head：Taiji Suzuki	Seeking a Research Scientist or Postdoctoral Researcher (W24142)	Open until filled	Tokyo
Team Leader: Takao Aoki	Seeking a few Senior Scientists, Research Scientists, Postdoctoral Researchers or Research Associates (W24140)	Open until filled	Wako
Director: Hiromitsu Haba	Seeking a Postdoctoral Researcher or Contract Researcher (W24141)	Open until filled	Wako
Unite Leader: Kento Sato	Seeking Senior Technical Scientist or Technical Scientist (K24038)	Open until filled	Kobe

Principal investigator	Position	Deadline	Locations
Laboratory head: Nakamura Yuki	Seeking Research Scientists or Postdoctoral Researchers (Y24036)	Open until filled	Yokohama
Unit Leader: Shinichi Miura	Seeking Senior Technical Staff or Technical Staff I (K24034)	Open until filled	Tokyo Kobe
	[Female only] Seeking a few Senior Scientists, Research Scientists, Postdoctoral Researchers or Research Associates (W24119)	Open until filled	Wako
RIKEN ECL Team Leader: Shihori Yokobayashi	Seeking Research Scientist or Postdoctoral Researcher (Y24032)	Open until filled	Yokohama
Team Director: Akira Furusawa	Seeking a few Postdoctoral Researchers (W24089)	Open until filled	Wako
Team Principal: Toshiyuki Imamura	Seeking a Research Scientist or Postdoctoral Researcher (K24023)	Open until filled	Kobe
Unite Leader: Kento Sato	Seeking Senior Scientist, Research Scientist or Postdoctoral Researcher (K24020)	Open until filled	Kobe
Group Director: Kazuo Takimiya	Seeking a Postdoctoral Researcher (W24067)	Open until filled	Wako
Team Director: Jaw-Shen Tsai	Seeking a few Postdoctoral Researchers (W24048)	Open until filled	Wako
RIKEN ECL Unit Leader: Dongbo Shi	Seeking a Postdoctoral Researcher or Research Scientist (Y24008)	Open until filled	Yokohama